Nurturing Paintings
INOUE Yukari
aaploit presents Nurturing Paintings, a solo exhibition by Inoue Yukari, on view from April 26 through May 12, 2024. Inoue runs a painting class while actively pursuing her own painting practice. In recent years, she has undertaken a project titled "Nurturing Paintings"—an initiative to complete a large-scale work over the course of ten years.
The work measures 324 × 810 cm and is composed of ten canvases. Through dialogue-based viewing workshops, participants discuss what they feel when looking at the painted motifs and what should be added. The artist selects ideas that emerge from these conversations and incorporates them into the painting. Workshops have been held at middle schools, universities, and various communities. Sometimes only a portion of the large work is present at a workshop. To confirm the full picture and to report on its growth, the artist plans annual workshops each July at Natsukari Warehouse, where the complete work can be viewed.
The commitment to ten years and the practice of sourcing motifs through workshops originated from Inoue's desire to experiment with bringing motifs from outside her own practice. The final form is unpredictable—not only for workshop participants, but for Inoue herself. The project continues as an exhibition of a painting's growth process. Inoue sought motifs from workshops out of a wish to cultivate a relationship with painting. In making paintings, is the completed work simply the painter's ego? This question led to the concept of nurturing paintings by bringing motifs from elsewhere.
This exhibition features works of various sizes. We invite viewers to imagine spaces and lives with paintings in them.
For inquiries regarding the exhibition and works, please contact info@aaploit.com.
Nurturing Paintings
- Dates
- April 26 – May 12, 2024
- Hours
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday 13:00–18:00 Viewings by appointment available on other days
- Venue
- aaploit, Tokyo
Artist
INOUE Yukari
From Kanagawa Prefecture, based in Chiba Prefecture
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Textiles, Department of Home Economics, Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
Beyond the Grand Soliloquy, Natsuge Warehouse, Chiba
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Court Gallery Kokubunji, Tokyo
The Inconvenient Truth, Gallery Sumiko, Tokyo
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Court Gallery Kokubunji, Tokyo
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
Yukari Inoue Exhibition, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Painting the Town / Painting in the Town - Local Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Funabashi Citizens' Gallery, Chiba The Path of Painting 2019 - FACE Award-Winning Artists, SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo
50th Showa-kai Exhibition, Nitido Gallery, Tokyo
ACRYLART, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
Two-Person Exhibition, Niche Gallery, Tokyo
AWARDS & HONORS
Excellence Award, FACE 2018
Selected, 34th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Selected, FACE 2017
Selected, 8th Painting Competition, Japan Art Center
Finalist, 42nd International Art Grand Prize Exhibition
Selected, 33rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Art Olympiad, Rank 156
Prize Nominee, 32nd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Prize Nominee, 31st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Holbein Scholarship Student, 28th
Jury Commendation Award, Shell Art Exhibition 2012
Selected, 30th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Prize Nominee, 29th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Selected, Shell Art Exhibition 2010
Selected, 28th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Selected, 26th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
Scholarship Award, International Painting Competition & Scholarship
30th Commemorative Member Award, 30th Contemporary Children's Art Exhibition
Special Award, 29th Contemporary Children's Art Exhibition
Contemporary Children's Art Award, 28th Contemporary Children's Art Exhibition